Combining subtitle files

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On 18/07/10 21:23, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> As many films do not come in my native language, users download
> subtitles from the internet. However these subtitles appear to be
> tailored for illegal shares, not legal home DVD rips. Thus, the
> subtitle files are broken into two files, one for each half of the
> movie. Simply concatenating them together does not work as the
> subtitle files are encoded with timestamps. Is there a tool for
> concatenating subtitles files in Linux that will adjust the
> timestamps? Apparently this exists for Windows.

Ehm, why don't you rip the subtitles as well when you rip the DVD?